Remote Senior Engineer - Confluent Marketplace Solutions

About the Role

We’re hiring a Remote Senior Engineer to join our dynamic team at Confluent. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of data streaming technology. As a Senior Engineer, you will help design and build the platform, services, and workflows that power Confluent Marketplace end-to-end. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative environment where data is always in motion.

What You'll Do

• Design and build Confluent Marketplace platform services that power listing management, entitlement, provisioning, and lifecycle events for partner offerings.
• Implement end-to-end flows for how customers discover, evaluate, and adopt marketplace solutions directly from Confluent Cloud.
• Integrate with internal and external systems (e.g., billing, identity, metering, partner APIs) to provide a seamless marketplace experience.
• Develop tools and APIs for partners to onboard, validate, publish, and maintain their listings with clear quality and compliance guardrails.
• Own the lifecycle of features and services from design and prototyping through rollout, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Partner Engineering, and GTM teams to translate partner and customer needs into platform capabilities that scale.
• Contribute to engineering standards and architecture for the marketplace, ensuring services are maintainable, secure, and resilient.
• Participate in design and code reviews, help shape technical direction, and mentor peers where appropriate.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Java (experience with Go, Python, or similar languages is a plus).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and service design, including APIs, data modeling, and asynchronous workflows.
• Experience building productized internal or external platforms (marketplaces, app stores, partner platforms, or similar).
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and streaming systems (Apache Kafka / Confluent Cloud experience is strongly preferred).
• Strong grounding in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfort working with security, identity, and integration surfaces (authentication/authorization, webhooks, partner APIs).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to align and deliver across Product, Engineering, and partner-facing teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with commercial or technical marketplaces, app stores, or SaaS ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka connectors, data integration systems, or data products that would commonly appear in a marketplace.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.) and CI/CD automation.
• Familiarity with durable execution platforms such as temporal.
• Experience working with ISVs, cloud providers, or ecosystem partners, especially where platform capabilities underpin external offerings.
• Background in developer experience or platform tooling, enabling external or internal users to build on top of your services.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $179,200 — $210,600/year.
• Flexible remote work environment, allowing you to work from anywhere.
• Collaborative team culture that values diverse perspectives and ideas.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, wellness, and retirement plans.
• Async work culture that respects your time and promotes work-life balance.

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion. Join us as a Remote Senior Engineer and be part of a team that is redefining how data moves and what the world can do with it.